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    13 hours ago

    I have a friend in the national guard who joined before Trump was elected. I’m glad he’s injured.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    The US sent a “15-point plan” which in effect sets out Washington’s demands for ending the war. The list includes demands on limits to the weapons Iran may possess and a point on ending support for proxy groups in the region. Iran is also being required to accept the existence of the state of Israel.

    So it’s the Israel’s demands.

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        14 hours ago

        they still didn’t actually declare war though.

        just another thing to use when they are all charged with treason.

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        It wasn’t illegal, unfortunately. He has the power to do it for 60 days before Congress has to weigh in.

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          It’s illegal.

          The War Powers Resolution is a defensive exception to the rule:

          The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.

          https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1541

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      They did the bare minimum of just eliminating or replacing those in charge of enforcing it, because they lack so much basic decency they don’t even feel the need to feign.

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    21 hours ago

    The autistic person in me who has spent days trying to figure out how to get troops into Iran without insane losses kinda wants to see how this plays out.

    But I can’t find a “good” way to accomplish the task, so I’m really hoping it doesn’t come down to it.

    So far the only way I see it being done without extensive US casualties, calls for completely destroying Iran’s energy network and waiting for them to capitulate and that will come with enormous loss of civilian lives.

    I hope I’m wrong or that we find a diplomatic solution.

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      There is no good way to do this. They’ll take extensive casualties ingressing into the country and soon as they’re on the ground they’ll be swarmed with Shaheeds. The US is not prepared for drone warfare. It’s really as simple as that.

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        They really really want to use nukes, a parachute regiment in deaths to instigate that is no great loss if they get to push the big red button

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          I’ve seen nukes floated a few times as a concern. The concern for Americans, and trump is that the war is in the middle east now and affecting troops and allies there. Should nukes be used, it most certainly will lead to domestic attacks withing America’s borders. Rather than be the end of war, like in japan, it’s would likely be an escalation.

          That either leads to civilian death and injuries as well as a climate of fear, or/and rounding up all the Muslim people (irrespective of country or sect) similar to Japanese camps in the past. So, again, the echoes of WW2 are coming.